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cult part of the bufinefs) In this Difl:r*i<5l : not 

 only as behig a primary objed; in the Eaft- 

 Norfolk fyftem, bnt becaufe the praclice here 

 iSj in many refped:s, peculiar to the country. 



The number has already been mentioned iil 

 general terms : it varies, however, with the 

 quantity of meadow or other natural grafsland 

 belonging to a given farm ; and fometimes, 

 but not always, with the time at which the 

 cows happen to come-in. 



The time of reading. — '^omQ farmers " bring 

 up" all the year round ; — rearing every calf 

 lie has dropt. Others rear in winter, only ; 

 fatting his fummcr calves for the ped-markets ; 

 or, at a diftance from them, for the butcher; 

 Norfolk farmers, in general, begin early in 

 winter to rear their calves : fome fo early ag 

 Michaelmas ; in general, if their cows come 

 In, before Chriftmas : not only as being fully 

 aware of the advantage of rearing early ; but 

 in order that they may rear as many of their 

 own calves as poffible ; " drove calves" being 

 always hazardous, and fomctimes fcarce. 



No dlftindlion is made as to fex : males and 

 females are equally objetrs of rearing, and are 

 both, occafionally, fubjefted to caftration ; it 



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